Le 30/09/2014 17:20, Ted Byers a écrit :
It may be useful to look at how R handles these issues. There is R-core,
and an R-core team, that is part of the main distribution (all packages
included in an installation of it), and then there is CRAN (similar in
concept to CPAN, for any Perl programmers out there - I hope it isn't
considered blasphemy to talk about Perl in this forum ;-) ), to which all
members of the R community can contribute their packages; analogous to
components in the context of an application like OFBiz. CRAN has a QA
protocol, which must be passed in order for an R package to be added to
CRAN; something that assures users that their system will not be trashed if
they instal a package available from CRAN. And, sometimes, the R core team
decides that one of the packages on CRAN is so important and useful that
they decide to add it to core (this doesn't happen often, but it does
happen). So then, in the context of OFBiz, the first question becomes, can
the hot-deploy support be used in a manner similar to a snadbox that
protext the rest of the system from badly behaved code (NB: I am not
implying anything about the code in the component in question now, but
rather thinking in general terms for any new component anyone may want to
contribute)? And then, the question becomes, what protocol can be used for
promoting components from the 'sandbox' to incorporation into the 'core
release'; whatever you want to call it?
Hi Ted, it seems you were more thinking aloud :) but let me try to answer you
In ASF project lazy consensus is used. In other words, it's discussed by the project community and if really people can't get to an agreement a vote
is open. Then only PMC members have binding votes http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html.
The issue about projectmanager Pierre raised has already been discussed and we decided to keep only ecommerce in specialpurpose. Before some
components (projectmanager for instance) had been moved from applicationd to specialpurpose. It's maybe unfortunate. But, as Jacopo suggested, we (so
far, Jacopo and I at least) are open to discuss this again and indeed projectmanager and few other components could get back to specialpurpose IMO.
Adding Junit tests then would be a good thing.
Note that, though Erwan (a PMC member, no longer an active committer) tried to install the whole flow, we don't have a mean to test the UI in the
project. I know though this is done by some other service providers.
I hope I answered you
Jacques
Cheers
Ted
